Napalm Health Spa 2009 Report
Concerned Citizens,
The new Napalm Health Spa 2009 Report has been released into the wild and is now available to read online at:
http://www.poetspath.com/napalm/nhs09/index.html
This year's contributers include Sam Abrams (who I once heard give a great talk about Walt Whitman's homosexuality), Andre Codrescu (who once told me that "It's not a successful poetry reading unless you get laid) and Sarah Peters (who writes among other things great Buffy The Vampire Slayer fan fiction and also shares my recent affinity with House) among others...
There's some great fucking things in this years Report that you're going to want to read: immediately, thanks to Editor and founder of the Museum of American Poetics, and one of my favorite poets ululating today (that's right. ululating. apparently that means to wail, which fits, I just stopped for a minute there looking for a word to descibe him and noticed my trusty Roget's SUPER Thesaurus sitting next to me, and there it was. ululating. shit, I'm rambling. I mean ululating. as in to ululate. also: see Howl) Jim Cohn (for more on Jim see the Illiterate interview under the Poetry Features section, right here, on this very same illiterate site).
So take a chunk of time and visit the Museum. It's free (but they will also greatfully accept electroniclly transmitted like wireless fucking magic--MAGIC!--donations).
I'll leave you this week with a quick history of the Museum of American Poetics, as cut and pasted from the website (poetspath.com)
As mentioned in the New York Times, the Museum of American Poetics (MAP) is a unique amalgam of poets, students, teachers, scholars, editors, publishers, literary centers, and web- designers. The Museum features a vast array of multimedia investigations that trace the finest in original American Poetics.
Since coming online in 1997, MAP has documented major trends in Postbeat poetry through its collection of online exhibits, annual Napalm Health Spa journal, poetics transmissions, video presentations, links and blog. Celebrating the diversity of experimental and outrider poetries leading up to the Beat Generation, MAP has expanded its coverage of world poetry, with special emphasis on international poets on the front lines against oppression.
Dedicated to the energy and vitality that characterizes the distinct shapeliness of ars poetica, MAP wires you to global luminescence. Bringing together past and living masters, periods, movements and schools, the Museum of American Poetics is dedicated to the persistent lucid spirit of bards and the contribution of American language arts to planetary consciousness.
until next time,
iloveyou,
Rob
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